Librarian Quotes

The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

The mind's cross indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.

Smiling back at her, it occurs to me that I've never met a mean librarian.

stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for.

All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.

I love librarians. They always make me feel like the world’s gonna be AOK.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

To all librarians everywhere, God bless you.

the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill.

Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I'm not a hoarder, though. I'm sort of a librarian.

[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature.

Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

At heart I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a monk.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Lady Queen," he said, "You've given me all I want. You're the queen a librarian dreams of.

I am a woman of theatre, I'm a librarian of theatre and I love all different kinds of music and all different kinds of expressions.

I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

I'm a librarian, not an oracle.

Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.

You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

I take every opportunity I can to speak to librarians.

Librarians and romance writers accomplish one mission better than anyone, including English teachers: we create readers for life - and what could be more fulfilling than that?

You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all.

What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.

Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian.

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

They spent pork-barrel money like a tidal-wave sea, but no funds trickled down far enough to reach me. Our books numbered few and were falling apart, and I sat mending pages with a crestfallen heart.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?

Librarians save lives: by handing the right book, at the right time, to a kid in need

It took me awhile to learn the rules. OK, it took the librarian in me weeks of careful obsessive research to learn the rules. There was a label maker involved. I'd rather not go into it.

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

My ultimate authority would be the school librarian Mrs. Greenbacher.

Google can bring you back 100, 000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

. . . when a woman has a husbandAnd you've got none, Why should she take advice from you?Even if you can quote Balzac and ShakespeareAnd all them other highfalutin' Greeks.